Workshop 4 – Regional workshop for Asia
14 October 2026
EN
16h00 - 17h30 - CET+1
Agenda
Room 3
The regional session will facilitate a guided discussion based on a given scenario. This approach will give participants from diverse backgrounds and jurisdictions a structured space to apply their own expertise to a realistic operational problem — surfacing where existing tools and frameworks hold, where they break down, and what a more effective response would require.
Moderator and rapporteur
Speakers
Presentations and panel discussions
- Materials
Resources
Council of Europe:
- 135th Session of the Committee of Ministers (Chișinău, 14-15 May 2026), Feasibility study on the possible elaboration of a legal instrument on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), including disinformation
- Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY): T-CY Guidance Note on election interference
- Council of Europe standards in the electoral field & Reference standards of the Council of Europe - Elections
- Council of Europe / Venice Commission:
- Interpretative declaration of the Code of good practice in electoral matters as concerns digital technologies and artificial intelligence (December 2024)
- Urgent Report on the Cancelation of Election Results by Constitutional Courts (January 2025) CDL-PI(2023)
- Reports and recommendations regarding elections and political parties Council for Democratic Elections - Venice Commission of the Council of Europe
- Joint report on digital technologies and elections https://www.coe.int/en/web/venice-commission/-/CDL-AD(2019)016-e
- Council of Europe Guidance note on countering the spread of online mis- and disinformation through fact-checking and platform design solutions https://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression/-/new-guidance-note-on-countering-the-spread-of-online-mis-and-disinformation-through-fact-checking-and-platform-design-solutions
European Union:
- Digital Services Act (European Union, 2024)
- The Code of Conduct on Disinformation | Shaping Europe’s digital future
- Transparency Centre
- EU External Action Service: Reports on Information Integrity and Countering Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (FIMI) https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/information-integrity-and-countering-foreign-information-manipulation-interference-fimi_en
- EU NIS 2 Directive - 2022/2555 - EN - EUR-Lex
- ENISA Opinion Paper_03.indd : Election Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities
Brennan Center for Justice
- Gauging the AI Threat to Free and Fair Elections https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gauging-ai-threat-free-and-fair-elections
Center for Democracy and Technology:
- Adaptation and Innovation: The Civic Space Response to AI-Infused Elections https://cdt.org/insights/adaptation-and-innovation-the-civic-space-response-to-ai-infused-elections/
- Adaptation and Innovation: The Civic Space Response to AI-Infused Elections
- This is Not An #Ad: Political Influencers, Elections, and Information Integrity on Social Media
- Generating Confusion: Stress-Testing AI Chatbot Responses on Voting with a Disability
- Election Integrity Recommendations for Generative AI Developers
- Rules of the Road: Political Advertising on Social Media in the 2024 U.S. Election
Institute for Strategic Dialogue:
- All operations on Armenia: Russia’s influence machine targets the vote, https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/all-operations-on-armenia-russias-influence-machine-targets-the-vote/
- The achilles’ heel of EU’s media sanctions: Reassessing RT Deutsch access ahead of Germany’s 2025 Federal Election https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/the-achilles-heel-of-eus-media-sanctions-reassessing-rt-deutsch-access-ahead-of-germanys-2025-federal-election/
- Effectiveness of the sactions on Russian state-affiliated media in the European Union https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Effectiveness-of-the-sanctions-on-Russian-state-media-1.pdf
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA):
- Cybersecurity in Elections https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/cybersecurity-in-elections-models-of-interagency-collaboration.pdf
Microsoft:
- Russia, Iran, and China continue influence campaigns before Election Day 2024 | Security Insider
- Russia-linked operators engaged in expansive efforts to influence US voters | Security Insider
- Iran steps into US election 2024 with cyber-enabled influence operations | Security Insider
- How Russia is trying to disrupt the 2024 Paris Olympic Games | Security Insider
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCPR):
VIGINUM (France):
- Analysis of the Russian information manipulation set Storm-1516: 20250507_TLP-CLEAR_NP_SGDSN_VIGINUM_Technical report_Storm-1516.pdf
More information
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